Taxpayers Are Being Schemed – Are We Angry Enough?

Everyday we hear news about young people going to the streets, even going out of their classrooms to protest against these oil prices hikes. Ibon Foundation just found out that we’re being schemed at by giant oil companies, charging 12 pesos per liter more than they should.

Of course we know that. And it’s being done to us almost everyday by this government since it started its illegal occupation of Malacañang.

The thing that I would like to point today is this–are we angry enough?

I say this because, unlike other controversy, this one hits right straight in our faces. Every week, we’re being punched in the nose by giant oil companies reportedly wanting to recover their losses. Yet, we see those television ads running by the millions each day. Yet, we find this quite normal.

We sit as coach potatoes, listening to all those stuff being ranted about by militants and we find ourselves watching those ads which we actually pay for by our hard-earned monies. Hey, are we being masochists?

We get angry when cab drivers don’t give us exact change but we never even bother to ask why government is getting at least 300 or 400 pesos everytime we fill up those gas tanks. I mean, come on, are we that stupid?

Government is scheming all over us yet we seem so helpless, so lame, so like sheep waiting to be slaughtered. Are we getting our money’s worth for government services which seem so distant, so discordant and so overpriced? Malacanang says they’re helpless, with Energy secretary Angelo Reyes leading the pack of evangelizers going around town, telling people to bear with it because government can’t do anything about it.

Government is supporting these oil price hikes because the BIR is collecting more money from VAT. Imagine, VAT collections from fuel has reached 80 billion pesos already. The more these giant oil companies hike those prices, the more government goes happy all straight to the bank. If they don’t collect VAT, then, Gloria’s true worth as a leader will be exposed. She’ll be exposed as a nincompoop, a pseudo-economist, a dead weight of a leader. For all those years we gave her to fix these problems, people will know how she and her gang of misfits bungled their jobs. And we’re paying for all these mismanagement.

Well, if government says they’re helpless, why do we have them sit over there in the first place? Why do we pay for their free food with our money? We’re paying all those taxes and here we are just being comfortable with assurances that government is doing something for us. For whom? For the poor people who are not consuming that much anyway?

Come on people, let’s rise up now and let’s give these abusers a piece of our minds. The more we proscratinate, the more abuse we’ll be getting from government, from big business, from giant oil companies, from unscrupulous foreign companies and from the likes of Jocjoc Bolante, Abalos, etc. Hey, it’s time to at least do something not only for ourselves, but for our kids.

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